Detailed photograph of the NSA data center transferred to the public domain.

Electronic Frontier Foundation continues the fight against the NSA. Although this is unarmed resistance, but large aircraft went into action. Specifically, the airship.

Activists from the EFF and partner organizations launched a bright airship above the largest of the NSA data centers in Utah with the words "Below is illegal espionage." The balloon flew for a reason, and took pictures of the area.

Yesterday, the EFF published the result: a high-resolution photograph, it captures the entire territory of a large NSA data center, whose construction began in 2012 and was supposed to end in September 2013. This complex after the commissioning will be the largest node in the information network of the NSA.
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The full version of the photo with a size of 5184 x 3456 pixels is laid out under the most free version of Creative Commons ( CC0 ), with a total waiver of rights. Any use of photographs for any purpose, including for sale, without attribution, etc. is allowed.

EFF hopes that this action will help to emphasize the need for an open discussion of spying on the NSA and will serve as an illustration of the intentional position of the NSA on intercepting not electronic, but selective, communications.



The estimated cost of building a data center in Utah is $ 2 billion. The diagram shows four rooms for servers with a total area of ​​9,290 m ² , an office for technical and administrative staff; backup power generators and fuel tanks, which is enough for three days of data center operation; water tanks and pumps, capacity of 6.4 million liters of water per day; refrigerators and heat exchangers through which water passes, in total about 60 thousand tons of cooling equipment; electrical substation; the security department, where the center of the video surveillance system, the penetration detection system and other subsystems with a total cost of $ 10 million are installed. The area of ​​all administrative and technical buildings is 83613 m ² . [ source of information ]